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...arme, let him beare it 66 for a difference betweene himselfe and his horse: For it 67 is all the wealth that he hath left, to be knowne a ... ...gue, is better than a beast of 137 your. 138 Ben. I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, 139 and so good a continuer, but k... ...y painted, and 256 in such great Letters as they write, heere is good horse 257 to hire: let them signifie vnder my signe, here you may 258... ...ied eight or nine 1272 wise words to speake to you, which these hobby- horses 1273 must not heare. 1274 Prin. For my life to breake wi... ..., by my troth I am exceeding ill, hey ho. 1552 Mar. For a hauke, a horse, or a husband? 1553 Beat. For the letter that begins them all... ... Did see her, heare her, at that howre last night, 1751 Talke with a ruffian at her chamber window, 1752 Who hath indeed most like a liberal...

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...Excerpt: An ancient leafless stump of a horse-chestnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some pretension. Against this stump, a pretty delicate fair girl of seventeen, whose short lilac sleeves revealed slender w...

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...ies May fare as well as they. —BP . Corbet. AN ANCIENT LEAFLESS STUMP of a horse-chesnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south s... ... contradicted every mo- ment, and myself set up for a model. I may steal a horse, while he may not look over the wall! Did you observe the inconsisten... ...culties with male house- maids—black and brown—and washerwomen who rode on horseback in white satin shoes. She looked as if it were hardly natural tha... ...her train, saying, that the penalty of irregularity must be borne, and the horses should not suffer for such 28 Dynevor Terrace Vol 1 freaks; and he ... ...cal from the intrusive!’ ‘I should like it, of all things!’ ‘I’ll send the horse round to the stable, and begin at once!’ exclaimed Louis, all eagerne... ...ong side of a hedge, and not a squire but will swear that he is a hardened ruffian!’ ‘Usually with reason,’ said the Earl. ‘Pray when did this person’... ...e complete, surmounted with the red flag, and guarded by a fierce party of ruffians. All at once, tremendous yells broke out on all sides. The 268 Dy... ... 271 Yo n g e ‘How can you talk so!’ cried Lady Conway. ‘Delaford says the ruffians are certain to overpower the Guard. We must go directly. Very like...

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...e heat and the knowledge of having lost his money and health and lamed his horses would sober The Boy down, and he would stand steady. In ninety-nine ... ...on; had mastered the thieves’-patter of the changars; had taken a Eusufzai horse-thief alone near Attock; and had stood under the mimbar-board of a Bo... ...for the breakfast-table, and who blacked—actually blacked—the hoofs of his horse like a Lon- don coachman! The turnout of Miss Youghal’s Arab was a wo... ... lights in “Benmore,” with his toes tingling for a waltz and his head in a horse-blanket, is rather amusing. One of these days, Strickland is going to... ...ry with the General for forcing his hand; so he said nothing, but held the horse’s head and pre- pared to thrash the General as some sort of satisfact... ... Station-Master believed him. He said that no Lieutenant could look such a ruffian as did Golightly, and that his in- structions were to send his capt... ... his post of pride at the head of the band, but the Regiment were a set of ruffians with bad consciences. The White Hussars shouted, and threw everyth...

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...97 Then Sauages could suffer. Thou did’st drinke 498 The stale of Horses, and the gilded Puddle 499 Which Beasts would cough at. Thy pal... ...opatra Shakespeare: First Folio 547 Or does he walke? Or is he on his Horse? 548 Oh happy horse to beare the weight of Anthony! 549 Do... ...48 Oh happy horse to beare the weight of Anthony! 549 Do brauely Horse, for wot’st thou whom thou moou’st, 550 The demy Atlas of this ... ...w with his Banners, and his well paid ranks, 1531 The nere- yet beaten Horse of Parthia, 1532 We haue iaded out o’th’ Field. 1533 Rom.... ... Eno. They are his Shards, and he their Beetle, so: 1562 This is to horse: Adieu, Noble Agrippa. 1563 Agri. Good Fortune worthy Souldi... ...ods, dares me to personal Combat. 2394 Caesar to Anthony: let the old Ruffian know, 2395 I haue many other wayes to dye: meane time 2396 ...

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... shore at last; Than who, too speedy, hastes to end his life By some stern ruffian, or adulterous wife. Death only is the lot which none can miss, And... ...artly thou hast guess’d) the truth. For had the martial Menelaus found The ruffian breathing yet on Argive ground; Nor earth had bid his carcase from ... ...s royal guest; And for the promised journey bids prepare The smooth hair’d horses, and the rapid car. Observant of his word, tire word scarce spoke, T... ...ay. Or a loved brother groan’d his life away. Or darling son, oppress’d by ruffian force, Fell breathless at his feet, a mangled corse; 70 The Odysse... ...is tongue the fluttering murmurs died. Meantime Minerva, from the fraudful horse, Back to the court of Priam bent your course.” “Inclement fate! (T el... ...d 83 Pope To good Laertes tell. Experienced age May timely intercept the ruffian rage. Convene the tribes the murderous plot reveal, And to their po... ...mpliment to the poet, desires him to sing the intro duction of the wooden horse into Troy, which subject pro voking his tears, Alcinous inquires of ... ... of nobler line, Or if of nobler, Memnon, it was thine. “When Ilion in the horse received her doom, And unseen armies ambush’d in its womb, Greece gav... ...cial feast, and drain the cheering bowl: Dread not the railer’s laugh, nor ruffian’s rage; No vulgar roof protects thy honour’d age; This dome a refug...

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... prob- ability of such an event, I endeavoured to get an exchange into the horse-guards, a body of troops which very rarely goes abroad, unless where ... ...en of the army. I was in the army myself formerly; in the Lord of Oxford’s horse. It is true I rode pri- vate; but I had money enough to have bought i... ...affliction with resignation. But when the dreadful news ar- rived that the horses were ready, and I, having taken my leave of all the rest, at last ap... ...ling, hurrying, attempting by every method to banish thought, I mounted my horse, which I had over-night ordered to be ready, and galloped away from t... ...y eyes with that delicious and yet heartfelt prospect, I at last turned my horse to descend the hill, and proceeded about a hundred yards, when, consi... ...d in the house; and, after I had procured sufficient to bury him, a set of ruffians have entered my house, seized all I have, have seized his dear, de... ...rty, was unwilling to be idle, or entirely to owe his rescue from both the ruffians to the serjeant; he therefore imitated the example 353 Henry Fiel... ...itive precepts of religion, and tend- ing manifestly to give a sanction to ruffians, and to protect them in all the ways of impudence and villany?” “A...

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... might have come out of a respectable parlour in the East End of London —a horsehair sofa, arm-chairs of the same. I glimpsed grimy antimacassars scat... ...ent. He explained that he had found the Steward lying face downward on the horsehair sofa. He was all right now. “He would not have died of fright,” I... ...she looked like a creature of high breed—an Arab steed in a string of cart-horses. A voice behind me said in a nasty equivocal tone: “I hope you are s... ... no. Don’t do that, sir. Y ou mustn’t for a moment give up facing that old ruffian. If you do he will get the upper hand of us.” 76 The Shadow Line I... ...d, sir,” he attacked me directly. “Y ou can’t slink past the old murderous ruffian. It isn’t the way. Y ou must go for him boldly—as I did. Boldness i... ...lay undue interest in the subject. He ran over the old tale of that savage ruffian’s iniquities with a certain vindictive gusto and 92 The Shadow Lin...

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...Excerpt: The tower among the Apennines It was in June that the sculptor, Kenyon, arrived on horse back at the gate of an ancient country house (which, from some of its features, might almost be called a castle) situated in a part of Tuscany somewhat remote from the ordinary track of tourists. Thither we must now acc...

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...INES ENNINES ENNINES I T WAS IN JUNE that the sculptor, Kenyon, arrived on horse back at the gate of an ancient country house (which, from some of its... ...I must summon one of the contadini from the farmhouse yonder, to take your horse to the stable.” 8 The Marble Faun V ol 2 Accordingly, the young Coun... ...l sunshine; and the creaking cider-mill, set in motion by a circumgyratory horse, is all a-gush with the luscious juice. To speak frankly, the cider-m... ...xpected, and shatters our design in fragments. The travellers set forth on horseback, and purposed to per- form much of their aimless journeyings unde... ...rney. From village to village, ragged boys and girls kept almost under the horses’ feet; hoary grandsires and gran- dames caught glimpses of their app... ...d thrown its handful of dust upon the spot, and buried it from sight. Only ruffians knew of its existence, and kept it for murder, and worse crime. Su...

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...ted as the abode of his father’s friend. The servants who came to take his horse told him he had been expected for two days. He was led into a study, ... ...went to rest. As soon as day dawned, Jean roused her guest, pro- duced his horse, which she had accommodated behind the hallan, and guided him for som... ...a hollow of the moor, sur- rounded by bushes. They instantly seized on his horse’s bridle with many shouts of welcome, exclaiming—(for he was well kno... ...tire just when— The mirth and fun grew fast and furious, and, mounting his horse accordingly, he took a French leave of his entertainers, but without ... ...his man, which was inexpressibly disgust- ing. His manners were those of a ruffian, conscious of the suspicion attending his character, yet aiming to ... ...ce of the law, They had commission to seize all thy fortune.— Here stood a ruffian with a horrid face, Lording it o’er a pile of massy plate, T umbled... ...hat one’s content,” meaning, probably, past resistance or com- plaint. One ruffian was armed with a cutlass, the other with a bludgeon; but as the roa... ...” They met accordingly, with the most murderous threats on the part of the ruffians. They soon found, how- ever, that their near opponent was equally ... ... mut- tered, a mair decent appearance.” At once three or four men, equally ruffians in appearance and dress rushed into the hut. “Meg, ye limb of Sata...

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...g my mind at all to bear upon or comprehend. And I sat down upon a kind of horsehair slab, or perch, of which there were two within; and looked, witho... ...women talking, and children crawling, and pigs burrowing, and unaccustomed horses plunging and rearing, close to the very rails — there — on, on, on —... ... to the opposite shore, were steam ferry—boats laden with people, coaches, horses, waggons, baskets, boxes: crossed and recrossed by other ferry boats... ...ther long main street, the Bowery. A railroad yonder, see, where two stout horses trot along, drawing a score American Notes – Dickens 88 or two of ... ...ten all sufficient to sustain. There are no bold eyes to make him bold; no ruffians to up hold a ruffian’s name before. All beyond the pitiless stone... ...y are; having, for the most part, scanty brown backs, like the lids of old horsehair trunks: spotted with un wholesome black blotches. They have long...

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...d lock his boiling replies within his indignant bosom. ‘Now, Sewis, now my horsewhip,’ he remarked, as if it had been a simple adjunct of his equipmen... ... as if it had been a simple adjunct of his equipment. ‘Your hat, sir?’ ‘My horsewhip, I said.’ ‘Your hat is in the hall,’ Sewis observed gravely. ‘I a... ...d.’ ‘Your hat is in the hall,’ Sewis observed gravely. ‘I asked you for my horsewhip.’ ‘That is not to be found anywhere,’ said Sewis. The squire was ... ...tled him on an arm and stepped briskly across gravel-walk and lawn, like a horse to whose neck a smart touch of the whip has been applied. 13 George ... ...came with postillions in advance of him wearing crape rosettes, as did the horses. We were in the cricket-field, where Dipwell was playing its first m... ... gallows in a rescue. Temple allowed him to be carried off by his faithful ruffians, only stipulating that the captain was never after able to release... ...ul Miss Armett by mad Lord Beaumaris at the theatre doors, aided by masked ruffians, after Anastasia’s performance of Zamira. ‘There are witnesses I k... ...fied. Feeling conqueror, my wrath was soothed; I bent to have a look at my ruffian, and ask him what cause of complaint gipsies camping on Durstan cou... ...as to reap a victory of the highest kind from the attack of the mysterious ruffians; so much; he said, he thought he could assure me of. He chattered ...

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...nd the mail, were all so heavy, A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens 5 that the horses had three times already come to a stop, be sides once drawing the c... ...iolently shook his head and everything upon it— like an unusually emphatic horse, denying that the coach could be got up the hill. Whenever the leader... ...e its own workings, and a few yards of road; and the reek of the labouring horses steamed into it, as if they had made it all. T wo other passengers, ... ...re him, where a loaded blunder buss lay at the top of six or eight loaded horse pistols, depos ited on a substratum of cutlass. The Dover mail was i... ...all suspected everybody else, and the coachman was sure of nothing but the horses; as to which cattle he could with a clear conscience have taken his ... ...arquis, abandoned the estates when he inherited them, and left them to the ruffian herd. They will recompense him now, I hope, as he deserves.” “Hey?”... ...ll staring and glaring with beastly excitement and want of sleep. As these ruffians turned and turned, their matted locks now flung forward over their...

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...There are scenes of all sorts; some dreadful combats, some grand and lofty horse-riding, some scenes of high life, and some of very middling indeed; s... ...emy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing har- ness, driven by a fat coachman in a three-cornered h... ... see if his—his buggy is at the door. What is a buggy, Papa?” “It is a one-horse palanquin,” said the old gentleman, who was a wag in his way. Joseph ... ...lunged into them on his return with consid- erable assiduity. He drove his horses in the Park; he dined at the fashionable taverns (for the Oriental C... ...rocer, was Alderman Dobbin—Alderman Dob- bin was Colonel of the City Light Horse, then burning with military ardour to resist the French Invasion. Col... ...n with Becky, she pronounced that Mrs. Crawley was an angel, her husband a ruffian, Lord Steyne an unprincipled wretch, as everybody knew, and the who... ...ched by the story Becky told; “a perfect angel, who adored his mother. The ruffians tore him shrieking out of her arms, and have never allowed him to ... ...r was disengaged too, and swore he would be the winner of her. A couple of ruffians were fighting for this innocent creature, gambling for her at her ...

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....] TIMON: What trumpet’s that? Messenger: ’Tis Alcibiades, and some twenty horse, All of companionship. TIMON: Pray, entertain them; give them guid... ... Where be our men? Servant: Here, my lord, in readiness. Second Lord : Our horses! [Re enter FLAVIUS, with the casket .] Timon of Athens – Act I, s... ...or, Lord Lucius, Out of his free love, hath presented to you Four milk white horses, trapp’d in silver. TIMON: I shall accept them fairly; let the pr... ...beggar’s dog, And give it Timon, why, the dog coins gold. If I would sell my horse, and buy twenty more Better than he, why, give my horse to Timon, A... ... him, it foals me, straight, Timon of Athens – Act II, scene i 21 And able horses. No porter at his gate, But rather one that smiles and still invit... ...t, his particular to foresee, Smells from the general weal: make curl’d pate ruffians bald; And let the unscarr’d braggarts of the war Derive some pai...

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...they were used as carpets; sometimes as coverings for the backs of camels, horses, or asses, to render the rider’s seat less incommodious; some- times... ... Charlemagne swam well; Bonaparte not at all. Charlemagne was a first-rate horse- man even amongst the Franks; Napoleon rode ill originally, and no pr... ... been suppressed and intercepted in their rudiments by these expurgatorial ruffians? Mr. Mure mentions as the ex- quisite reason for the present fashi... ... natura, out bounds upon him by huge careering leaps a horrid infu- riated ruffian of a dog—oftentimes a huge moloss, big as an English cow—active as ... ...d, by later travels amongst the Himalayas, it seems that the same gigantic ruffians prevail in Central Asia. But the noble English bull-dogs, who, bei... ...nerally, and in the case of cavalcades, the dogs fas- ten chiefly upon the horses. But endless are the compensa- tions which we find in the distributi... ... remote ages with a romantic idea of the bodily proportions in the men and horses composing the elite of the Macedonian army. This was the true secret... ...his reason, that in some principal gymnastic con- tests, running, leaping, horsemanship, and charioteering, it really was a disadvantage. And hence po...

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...a man who seemed more exag- geratedly reserved than myself. When he saw my horse’s breast fairly pushing the barrier, he did put out his hand to uncha... ...causeway, calling, as we entered the court,—‘Jo- seph, take Mr. Lockwood’s horse; and bring up some wine.’ ‘Here we have the whole establishment of do... ...iloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly that I charitably conjecture... ...led it. Above the chimney were sundry villainous old guns, and a couple of horse-pistols: and, by way of ornament, three gaudily-painted canisters dis... ...on of ascending; so his master dived down to him, leaving me vis-a-vis the ruffianly bitch and a pair of grim shaggy sheep-dogs, who shared with her a... ...ve any one. In the place where she heard Heathcliff termed a ‘vulgar young ruffian,’ and ‘worse than a brute,’ she took care not to act like him; but ... ...of the hall, Ellen. Catherine shall linger no longer to argue with the low ruffian—I have humoured her enough.’ He descended, and bidding the servants... ...know it, it is so changed since it was in your charge. By the fire stood a ruffianly child, strong in limb and dirty in garb, with a look of Catherine... ... wondering how I could fash- ion to be so conceited. Meanwhile, the infant ruffian contin- ued sucking; and glowered up at me defyingly, as he slavere...

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...how they cried out! There was such a noise that the gentlemen turned their horses’ heads to see whether any one was taken ill. When they heard what wa... ...st prepare to have some men billeted on him, and I sent out to inquire for horses, but decided that, as it was only our own troops retreating, there w... ...uc d’Enghien!’ I was at the window just in time to see a party of splendid horsemen, carrying the striped and castellated colours of Spain, galloping ... ...o tell me that they had only halted at the inn long enough to obtain fresh horses, on their way to the Queen-Regent with the news of the great victory... ...rned to the charge, but faintness overpowered him, and he was supported on horseback from the field to the tent. The wound had been dressed, and the s... ...he mob was against everybody, chiefly against the Cardinal, and the brutal ruffians of the Prince’s follow- ing lurked about, bullying every one who g... ...rt’s horse—these wretches were not the peaceable work-people, but bandits, ruffians, disbanded sol- diers, criminals, excited by distributions of wine... ...flaxen hair, looking like a king, but good for nothing but to be a king of ruffians. What does the Prince do but go to the Hotel de Ville with the Duk...

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... might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, ... ...cedents, groping knee deep in technicalities, running their goat hair and horsehair warded heads against walls of words and making a pretence of equi... ...tiff or defendant who was promised 9 Bleak House – Vol. One a new rocking horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, possessed ... ...e and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world. Fair wards of court have fade... ...ree, pr eight o’clock coach from Reading, on Monday morning next, to White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly, London, where one of our clks will be in waiting ... ... stentorian tone: “We have been misdirected, Jarndyce, by a most abandoned ruffian, who told us to take the turning to the right instead of to the lef... ...ee mankind from the insupportable burden of the existence of those lurking ruffians. He brings actions for trespass; I bring actions for trespass. He ...

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...said the boy, ‘before I rest any more, I’ll go out and see if I can find a horse to hold, and then I can buy some birdseed, and a bit of something nic... ...them more comfortable if he could. Bless us, what a number of gentlemen on horseback there were riding up and down, and how few of them wanted their h... ...t sum of money was realised in London, in the course of a year, by holding horses alone. And undoubtedly it would have been a very large one, if only ... ...h quick steps and now with slow; now lingering as some rider slackened his horse’s pace and looked about him; and now darting at full The Old Curiosit... ... Dickens 112 speed up a bye street as he caught a glimpse of some distant horseman going lazily up the shady side of the road, and promising to stop,... ... have always hated him, for family reasons. Besides, he was an intractable ruffian; otherwise he would have been of use. This fellow is pigeon hearted...

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... fro in search of shelter from its chill pursuit; the labourer unyoked his horses, and with head bent down, trudged briskly home beside them; and from... ...and a young lady, travelling, unattended, in a rusty old chariot with post-horses; coming nobody knew whence and going nobody knew whither; had turned... ... ENJOY- MENT OF MR PINCH T HE BEST OF ARCHITECTS and land surveyors kept a horse, in whom the enemies already mentioned more than once in these pages ... ...is outward person, for he was a raw-boned, hag- 64 Martin Chuzzlewit gard horse, always on a much shorter allowance of corn than Mr Pecksniff; but in... ...he uncharitable- ness of the world, that they made the comparison. In this horse, and the hooded vehicle, whatever its proper name might be, to which ... ...ng cards from Furniture Ware- houses—clearly the act of that ungentlemanly ruffian Jinkins; only he hadn’t evidence enough to call him out upon. All o...

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...ver to forget. I was one day talking by the wayside with my friend Hoka, when I perceived his eyes suddenly to flash and his stature to 14 In The Sou... ...nce Born Among Flowers—fell in abeyance, and he was dubbed instead by the expressive byword, Taipi- Kikino—Highwater Man-of-no-account—or, Englishing ... ...spelt ‘taboo’) has to be declared, and who was to declare it? Taipi might; he ought; it was a chief part of his duty; but would any one regard the inh... ... was often reminded of the slums of some great city. One night, as dusk was falling, a whale-boat put in on that part of the beach where I chanced to ... ...ad, too, was busy: strings of girls, fair and foul, as in less favoured countries; men bearing breadfruit; the sisters, with a little guard of pupils;... ...ere it seemed that not a goat could scramble. And in truth, for all the labour that it cost, the road is regarded even by the Marquesans as impassable... .... There was one black sheep indeed. I tell of him here where he lived, against my rule; for in this case I have no measure to preserve, and the man is...

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...ce, so tough and taste- less, that I almost believed the cook’s story of a horse’s hoof with the shoe on having been fished up out of the pickle of on... ...their narrow channels; and this too as a mere amusement on the part of the ruffians. Indeed, it is almost incredible, the light in which many sailors ... ...hich it was given out. The night of the burial he laid his hand on the old horse- shoe nailed as a charm to the foremast, and solemnly told us that, i... ...t always covered with verdure. Many are crescent-shaped; others resemble a horse-shoe in figure. These last are nothing more than narrow circles of la... ...asy, and trying to edge back, but pushed forward again. “Some of that salt horse ain’t as sweet as it might be.” “That’s not what I asked you,” shoute... ...ers were spanned by a single arch of stone. In any part of the road, three horsemen might have ridden abreast. This beautiful avenue—by far the best t...

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...lives not now that knows me to be in love; yet I am in love; but a team of horse shall not pluck that from me; nor who tis I love; and yet tis a wom... ...he cate-log of her condition. Imprimis: She can fetch and carry. Why, a horse can do no more: nay, a horse cannot fetch, but only carry; therefore... ... heaven! PROTEUS: I ll force thee yield to my desire. VALENTINE: Ruffian, let go that rude uncivil touch, Thou friend of an ill fashion! PRO...

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...of Errors Act II, scene ii 13 And that this body, consecrate to thee, By ruffian lust should be contaminate! Wouldst thou not spit at me and spurn... ...t, Marian, Cicel, Gillian, Ginn! DROMIO OF SYRACUSE : [Within] Mome, malt horse, capon, coxcomb, idiot, patch! Either get thee from the door, or si... ...o thee? DROMIO OF SYRACUSE : Marry sir, such claim as you would lay to your horse; and she would have me as a beast: not that, I being a beast, she...

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...gility beyond his years, and constantly rode the most spirited and vicious horses to water, with an intrepidity which surprized every one. While he wa... ... The best gamesters, before they laid their money, always in- quired which horse little Joey was to ride; and the bets were rather proportioned by the... ...as to ride; and the bets were rather proportioned by the rider than by the horse himself; especially after he had scornfully refused a considerable br... ...llegory, intending to insinuate no more than that lovers do not march like horse-guards; in short, that they put the best leg foremost; which our lust... ...e said was indeed very true. A fellow now arrived at the same inn with two horses, one of which he was leading farther down into the country to meet h... ...urn him a few shillings, to defray his charges on his way home. One of the ruffians answered with an oath, “Yes, we’ll give you something presently: b... ...nto the circumstances of the robbery, when the coach stopt, and one of the ruffians, put- 63 Fielding ting a pistol in, demanded their money of the p...

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...er of the continent where the most animals were to be had. Until they got the horse. Only then, when they found a way to dominate grazing animals d... ...d they invade their lands. The original Africans never did this; they had no horses. They never learned to domesticate the wild zebra. The animals... ...ue to the clash of cultures or languages? Once Asiatic Mongols started using horses, they became incredibly warlike. So did the North American pla... ...ered. For thousands of years: the most powerful military weapon had been the horse-archer. Up until the 14 th Century, the superior mobility, spee... ...th Century, the superior mobility, speed and long-range killing power of the horse-archer gave Nomads the power and means to continually expand onto... ...ers. It became acceptable for the poorest, lowest, most ignorant, brutes and ruffians to be as openly greedy as the richest robber Baron. Greed bec...

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...owner as he walked, and against the rough side of his steed when he was on horseback. For our young man had a steed which was the observed of all obse... ...s to perform his eight leagues a day. Unfortunately, the qualities of this horse were so well concealed under his strange-colored hide and his unaccou... ...his unaccountable gait, that at a time when everybody was a connoisseur in horseflesh, the appearance of the aforesaid pony at Meung—which place he ha... ...al from himself the ridiculous appearance that such a steed gave him, good horseman as he was. He had sighed deeply, there- fore, when accepting the g... ...in that pure Bearn patois of which Henry IV could never rid himself, “this horse was born in the house of your father about thir- teen years ago, and ... ...lle was praised to the highest note by these men, who adored him, and who, ruffians as they were, trembled before him like scholars before their maste...

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...-dozen great dogs, to the court, where the Drummonds wanted to exhibit the horses procured for the journey, and James and Jean to show the hawks that ... ...leanor. ‘What would you have better than the hill and the brae? T o tame a horse and fly a hawk, and couch a lance and bend a bow! That’s what a man i... ... ‘it is only to hear that we are made over, like a couple of kine, to some ruffianly reivers, who will beat a princess as soon as a scullion.’ They re... ...ing to the Bishop, ‘do not, for mercy’s sake, give me over to one of those ruffians.’ ‘They are coming, Eleanor,’ said James, with a boy’s love of ter... ...the Bishop, ‘and I can advance enow to Sir Patrick to provide the gear and horses.’ ‘ And my gude wife’s royal kin are my guests till they win to thei... ...P DEP DEPAR AR AR AR ARTURE TURE TURE TURE TURE ‘I bowed my pride, A horse-boy in his train to ride.’ —Scott. THE LADY OF GLENUSKIE, as she was ... ...ecided that it was well-nigh im- possible to train them to courage without ruffianism, or to prevent them from being tainted by the prevailing standar... ...as—Douglas, help!’ cried Jean. But each was sur- rounded by a swarm of the ruffians; and as George Douglas hastily pushed down some with his horse, an... ...s blood, so far from his father and his home; but she would not have these ruffians see her weep and think it was for herself, and she proudly straigh...

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... officer who visited the outposts, (Colonel Esmond was taking an airing on horseback, being too weak for military duty,) they came to this river, wher... ... our side of the river. Whilst this parley was going on, three officers on horseback, on the French side, appeared at some little distance, and stoppe... ... he; not him, l’autre,” and pointed to the distant officer on a chest- nut horse, with a cuirass shining in the sun, and over it a broad blue ribbon. ... ... Book Three men would be making riding parties together; Mrs. Beatrix in a horseman’s coat and hat, the foremost after the stag-hounds and over the pa... ...ion—made him Mas- ter of the Wardrobe and Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Horse; and his lordship adhered firmly to King James, being of the small co... ...’s death?—a paltry quarrel that might easily have been made up, and with a ruffian so low, base, profligate, and degraded with former crimes and repea... ...n belonged had the benefit of his service, and now were well rid of such a ruffian. He, and Meredith, and Macartney, were the Duke of Marlborough’s me...

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...ging that he had spoken the truth. He con- tinued: “We had been talking of horses, if I remember aright, just before leaving the Rue C —— . This was t... ...Le Commerciel wishes to intimate that Marie was seized by some gang of low ruffians not far from her mother’s door. ‘It is impossible,’ it urges, ‘tha... ...s who have no pocket-handkerchiefs’ the editor intends the lowest class of ruffians. These, however, are the very description of people who will alway... ...e deceased, although less in extent, was per- petuated, by a gang of young ruffians, upon the person of a second young female. Is it wonderful that th... ...not so committed. It would have been a miracle indeed, if, while a gang of ruffians were perpetrating, at a given locality, a most unheard-of wrong, t... ...nd the growing charm dispelled by the voice and personal intrusion of some ruffian or party of carousing blackguards. He will seek privacy amid the de...

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...” said Alyosha with a smile. “Listen. I meant this morning to get that ruffian Mitya locked up and I don’t know now what I shall decide about it. ... ...o Alyosha, he went on in a confiden- tial half-whisper. “If I send the ruffian to prison, she’ll hear of it and run to see him at once. But if she... ...we began to dream of how we would move to another town, how we would buy a horse and cart. ‘We will put mamma and your sisters inside, we will cover t... ...ve a lift now and then, and I’ll walk beside, for we must take care of our horse, we can’t all ride. That’s how we’ll go.’ He was enchanted at 45 Dos... ...s enchanted at 45 Dostoevsky that, most of all at the thought of having a horse and driving him. For of course a Russian boy is born among horses. We... ...o back, for she has to work for us like a slave. She is like an overdriven horse with all of us on her back. She waits on us all, mends and washes, sw... ...w that Ilusha and I will perhaps really carry out our dream. We will buy a horse and cart, a black horse, he insists on its being black, and we will s...

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...er Lytton, Wills, and T ennyson produced a few glaringly artifi- cial high horses for the great actors of their time; but the playwrights proper, who ... ...h visitor now about to be admitted to his presence he may be an outrageous ruffian. In fact he actually is an outrageous ruffian, in no matter whose e... ... is this, Varinka? EDSTASTON [scrambling to his feet]. Madam, this drunken ruffian— PATIOMKIN. Thas true. Drungn ruffian. Took dvantage of my being dr...

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...rnan somewhere, but I told her I was too true to my principles to let wild horses drag me there.” “Let alone fat tame ones,” ejaculated Gerald. “What ... ...ar from St. Andrew’s Church, and stud- ied the accommodation available for horses, and the powers of the pianos on hire. CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPT... ...he penalty of having tied our little Audrey into a chair to be pelted with horse-chestnuts.” “At Adrian’s bidding?” “Of course. I fancy the Harewood b... ... of Naples, and the lady of the house lighted a lucifer match, besides the horse who drained a goblet of red wine.” “Y ou know that was only the prono... ...,” said Mrs. Grinstead. “Did she also stipulate that he was never to see a horse? Quite as fatal to his father.” “You need not point the unreason, but... ... they know a great deal too much, and will prove to you that the Cid was a ruffian, and the Black Prince not much better.” “And are you allowed the ‘I...

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...rees without shade, drooped beneath the stare of earth and sky. So did the horses with drowsy bells, in long files of carts, creeping slowly towards t... ...onday, and he’s going to give me a berth.’ ‘What is he a dealer in, Tip?’ ‘Horses. All right! I shall do now, Amy.’ She lost sight of him for months a... ...oad, and the huge Diligence, and its mountain of luggage, and its six grey horses with their tails tied up, getting under weigh at the coach office. B... ...; that there one could find meat, drink, and lodgings, whether one came on horseback, or came on foot; and that it kept good wines, liqueurs, and bran... ...ntiff was a ‘Chaunter’—meaning, not a singer of an- thems, but a seller of horses—and that he (Plornish) consid- ered that ten shillings in the pound ... ...ioned, select theirs; and that, whereas in the Royal Academy some evil old ruffian of a Dog-stealer will annually be found embodying all the cardinal ...

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...driver’s seat a young fellow in a red shirt. The young fellow took out the horses and led them out into the street to walk them up and down a bit, whi... ...n age, lived at home with his mother. Old Kapluntsev had kept five pair of horses and sent carriers all over the town; his widow had not given up the ... ... the baby . There were five peasants — the carriers — a drunken saucy lot; horses, too, and dray-carts to see to, and then the fence would be broken o... ... They have robbed you of your boy and made a slave of him. You work like a horse, and never hear a kind word. I’d rather pine all my days an old maid,... ...gan hurrying about: “Kuzka! get up!” he shouted. “It’ s time to put in the horses! Look sharp!” The bustle of morning was beginning. A young Jewess in... ...Antip Syedelnikov, coming out of the tavern. ‘Where are you taking it, you ruffian?’ says he, and takes me by the ear.” Kiryak had a fearful headache ... ...ows and firm, youthful bosom were defined with peculiar distinctness. “The ruffians over there undressed me and turned me out like this,” she said. “I...

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... Andrew again interrupted him, “let us talk business. Have you been to the Horse Guards?” “No, I have not; but this is what I have been thinking and w... ...War & Peace tions. He went to Kuragin’s. Reaching the large house near the Horse Guards’ bar- racks, in which Anatole lived, Pierre entered the lighte... ...st daughter— both named Nataly. Ever since the morning, carriages with six horses had been coming and going continually, bringing visitors to the Coun... ...rmed his hearers. “Well, my boy, you’ll get along wherever you go— foot or horse—that I’ll warrant,” said Shinshin, patting him on the shoulder and ta... ...I?” he said; “do you think it is easier for me? I am as worn out as a post horse, but still I must have a talk with you, Catiche, a very serious talk.... ...expected them all. Y es, it was like a dream in which a man fancies that a ruffian is coming to attack him, and raises his arm to strike that ruffian ...

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... dread- ful catastrophe, having met with a fatal injury by a fall from his horse, as he rode between Leith and Holyrood House, of which he died the ne... ...s was his general custom, he would have escaped perish- ing by a fall from horseback. As the work in which it occurs is so scarce as almost to be uniq... ...sons, under highest pain, Always to walk on foot, and then again Order all horses to be hough’d, that we Might never more the like adventure see. Supp... ...e only to add, that the death of the unfortunate bridegroom by a fall from horseback has been in the novel transferred to the no less unfortunate love... ... above the instructions, of his teacher. He particularly shone in painting horses, that being a favourite sign in the Scottish villages; and, in traci... ...rever- ence; our funeral rites are marred by the intrusion of bailiffs and ruffians, and our grief—the grief due to our departed friend—is chased from...

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...stood ‘‘head on,’’ bowing and curvetting at each other like a couple of war horses reined in by their riders. It was the first vessel that I had seen... ...t which the soil begins, and so hard that it is a favorite place for running horses. It was growing dark, so that we could just distinguish the dim o... ...wn. In a few minutes we heard something coming towards us. It was a man on horseback. He came up on the full gallop, reined up near us, addressed a ... ...ure, and courteous manners, dressed in broadcloth and velvet, with a noble horse completely covered with trappings; without a real in his pocket, a... ...s of the voices and beauty of the into- nations of both sexes. Every common ruffian looking fellow, with a slouched hat, blanket cloak, dirty under d... ... more evenness and stateliness of utterance. A common bullock driver, on horseback, delivering a message, seemed to speak like an ambassador at ... ...t resort of the thinking and the good, taken to only when vice, fraud, and ruffianism have intrenched themselves behind the forms of law, suffrage,...

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...ome which would interfere with political economy and the keeping of saddle-horses: a man would naturally think twice before he risked himself in such ... ...ly reconcilable with it. Most men thought her be- witching when she was on horseback. She loved the fresh air and the various aspects of the country, ... ...e the most of the land which sup- ports them all, than in keeping dogs and horses only to gallop over it. It is not a sin to make yourself poor in per... ...nto the pleasures of hunting. I wish you would let me send over a chestnut horse for you to try. It has been trained for a lady. I saw you on Saturday... ...of tradition. “Let me hope that you will rescind that resolution about the horse, Miss Brooke,” said the persevering admirer. “I assure you, riding is... ...arish. And I don’t believe in any pay to make amends for bringing a lot of ruffians to trample your crops. Where’s a company’s pocket?” “Brother Peter...

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...olitical checks will no more act of themselves than a bridle will direct a horse without a rider. If the checking functionaries are as corrupt or as n... ...lowed to graduate at universities; whether the mild penalties inflicted on ruffians who beat their wives daily almost to death’s door should be exchan...

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...s military services, and the elder at home at Schloss Galgenstein breeding horses, hunting wild boars, swindling tenants, living in a great house with... ...tailed, barrel-bel- lied, thick-flanked, arch-necked, Roman-nosed Flanders horses, which were the property of the two gentlemen now taking their ease ... ..., is the only thing which the readers of romances care to hear? The little horse-boy, who was leading the two black Flanders horses up and down the gr... ...nd down the green, might have put them in the stable for any good that the horses got by the gentle exercise which they were now taking in the cool ev... ...leek shining coats; but the lad had been especially ordered so to walk the horses about until he received further commands from the gentlemen reposing... ...m speak- ing too much: it sent him reeling to the other end of the room). ‘Ruffian!’ says I. ‘Dog!’ says I. ‘Insolent puppy and coxcomb! what do you m... ...enstein, who has been the cause of my ruin.” “The inferrnal blackguard and ruffian!” said the tall man; who, with his companion, has no doubt been rec... ... husband, and the stout old lady her mother-in-law, and the dirty one-eyed ruffian who sold me the parson’s hat that had so nearly brought me into tro...

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...retty old already: he had certainly begun to use his years as a stalk- ing horse. Latterly he was beyond all the impudencies of logic, considering a r... ...elding the elements for his life, and bending ideas, as an athlete bends a horse-shoe, with a visible and lively effort. He has, in theorising, a comp... ...n.” I have been cheered to see symptoms of effectual penitence in my sweet ruffian; and by the handling that he accepted uncomplainingly the other day... ... the Scotsman, to come home to Skelt; there was the inn-sign and there the horse- trough, all foreshadowed in the faithful Skelt. If, at the ripe age ... ...now not why I call it silent, when it was enlivened with such a clatter of horse-shoes, and such a rattle of musketry, and such a stir of talk; or why... ...oir! Yet a sixth time, dearest d’Artagnan, we shall kid- nap Monk and take horse together for Belle Isle. 106 Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER XV A GOS...